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Grammy Day

Monday was Grammy day. She was up for the weekend and wanted to spend one extra day with Ashley. The plan was for her to take Ashley to daycare at 3pm so she could get on the road and not have to drive in traffic or the dark. Well, Ashley ended up taking a 2 1/2 hour nap (Grammy must have worn her out!) so she called me at work and said "Do I really have to take her to daycare, can't I just stay here until you get home" Of course I said yes, I will support any time she can spend with family and not have to go to daycare. They had such a fun day, going for a walk and stopping to have a muffin at Starbucks and raiding my mom's purse. Apparently she liked my mom's rosary and debit card (the debit card is yet to be found) but this girl knows her priorities. She can pray to God for forgiveness that she has taken Grammy's debit card and gone on a shopping spree. Mom, have you checked your account lately? You can see from the pictures too that Grammy loves to dress Ashley in adorable outfits. Every time she comes to visit she brings up something new. Grammy sure has style!


Caught you little one!

Making sure she has her purse

Play Date

Last Friday I took the day off because Ashley's daycare had an in service. So, we headed down to Gig Harbor to visit my best friend in college and her 2 little boys, Noah and Max. They kids had never met before and it was so cute to see them play. It had been a long time since I'd seen Jessie so we had a lot to catch up on. Her sister also came by with her little boy Mason. He's about 4 months older than Noah, but towers over him. He is very tall for his age, you can imagine what he looked like standing next to my little squirt. Jessie has these pictures on her blog and she put a cute story about Noah and Mason fighting over Ashley. You can see in one picture, it looks like Noah has his arm around her and then in another Mason is leaning towards her, so cute!

Ashley and Noah, new best friends.

Noah was so good about sharing his toys with Ashley. They played really well together.

Noah, Mason, and Ashley

Beach House

A couple weekends ago we went to our beach house to celebrate Grandpa Timm's birthday. We try to make a trip out to the house after winter to see if the gutters need to be cleaned and if anything else needs to be done. Just so happens the weekend we planned to go was Brian's Spring break and Steve's 55th birthday. I forgot this, but they had never been to the house before and we've had it for almost 3 years. They were due for a visit! We left Thursday night after work and got to Pacific City around 10:30pm, not too bad. In fact we thought Brian's parents were going to beat us there by about an hour. We gave them directions which are really difficult if you've never been there before. It's a gated community, so they needed to pick up the pass code and key from the property manager and find there way to the house in the dark. Well turns out they didn't need to do all that. We caught up to them on Hwy 6 and they followed us from there. Worked out perfect! Ashley slept the whole way, which is why I like to leave at night. Friday was gorgeous, we played outside in the sand and went into Lincoln City while the boys went golfing. Saturday was Steve's birthday. We took a long walk on the beach and pretty much just hung out and enjoyed each other's company. It was so nice to have a weekend to relax.

It was so cold and windy the day we decided to walk on the beach. Not for Ashley though, she was all bundled up and tucked away in the backpack, you can barely see her!



Brian and I walked down to the beach with a glass of wine and watched the sunset while Grandma and Grandpa watched Ashley. Last time we were here we climbed on top of the roof to watch it because Ashley 5 months old and already in bed. Much better view from the beach!

"Peek a Boo"



Just her style, she insisted on wearing her snow suit all weekend.

Ashley keeping and eye on Papa, "whatcha doin' out there?"

Ashley thought this was pretty cool that grandma got in the tent with her to play, evidently Brody felt left out and decided to join them

This was the entrance to Steve's room on his birthday. Not too pretty, but served its purpose. Brian and I had a good laugh picturing him getting up in the middle of the night running into this in the dark. In fact that's what he did, woke up at 3am tangled in this mess! Happy Birthday! Had to do something crazy for your big 55!